Chapter 2

The Pink Dino Gem

Kimberly drove her SUV down the country road that led to her house. She didn't expect ot make friends here so quick, but everyone was really friendly. It even brightened her day when thay young boy, Conner checked her out. Almost 10 years later and highschool boys where still drooling over her. Kim pulled up to her home. She got out of the car and looked around. It really was beautiful here. She hadn't seen the whole property yet so she decide to take a jog though the woods around her place to look around.

The beutiful brunette came out wearing black shorts and a tight pink tank top and some comfortable running shoes. She hadn't worn a lot of pink since highschool but lately she had been finding the color quite attracting. She grabbed her walkman from the SUV and started to jo through the bush. As she got deeper into the forest . The former ranger didn't notice the steep drop and found herself rolling head first down a very large hill.

"OOOF."

Kim landed with a thud on the dirt floor of the forest. She picked herself up off the ground and looked around her. She had lost her walkman. Then she noticed a statue a few feet in front of her. She walked up to it . There was a face of a dinosaur on the top and a handprint underneath it. The curios girl took her index finger and and outlined the print. She then stuck her hand in the print. It was a perfect match. All of sudden the statue glowed and her hand was pulled into the statue. Kim grabbed onto someting small and hard inside and pulled out her hand. The the statue exploded amd Kim was thrown back. She picked herself off the ground for the secound time. Then she opened her hand and on her palm lay a tiny pink gem.

"weird."

She turned the rock over in her hand. All of a sudden she felt a surge of power go throuh her. Kim felt really powerful,like back when she was the pink ranger.

"wow this is strange. but great."

Kim looked at the area around her. She wanted to go home but she didn't know which way that was.

"Hello!" Kim yelled but no one replied which didn't surprise her.

"Hello! Anybody out here!" Kim yelled again.

Hearing no reply Kim decide to walk and hopefully find her home or someone who could help her. After a while of walking Kim still din't find any familiar territory. She kept walking until she fell into alarge hole.

"Not again!"

Kim got back on to her feet and looked around. There was a tunnel. She walked throeugh it until she came to a dead end. There was a skeleton of a dinosaur on the wall.

"This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder."

She took her finger and stater to touch the head when the jaw came down and a hidden door opened.

"Oops"

The former pink ranger walked in through the door and found her self in some sort of lab. She looked at all the fancy equipment around her. Just then someone entered the room from another door. Thge person sensed someone else in the room and looked up. Kim couldn't belive her eyes.

"Tommy!"

"Kimberly?"

"Oh my god. what are you doing here and what is this place?"

"What am i doing here? I live here. What are you doing here?"

"Long story. i just moved to reefside,went for a jog, fell down a hill. Got this from some weird statue."

Kim held out the pink gem for him to see it.

"A pink dino gem."

"You know what this is?"

"Yes. I have the black one. They make myself and four kids able top become the power rangers."

"That's why i feel so powerful like in the old days."

"Can i see it?"

Kimberly looked at the stone and handed it to Tommy.

"This is weird i don't know why we didn't detect it. hoe exactly did you get it from the statue?"

She told him about the mark and the light .

"I'm guessing you feel strong because the Dino Gem has already bonded with your DNA."

"So i guess i am a power ranger now whether i like it or not."

" Kind of. I'm sorry Kim this is probably gonna change your life for the worst."

"Don't be sorry, you coudn't stop it. and i kind of feel like I was meant to find this gem. You know how my hand fit perfectly into the print."

"Maybe."

"To tell you what i was reallyt missing all the action of being a ranger anyways. I mean once you've been a ranger going back to normal is really hard."

"but i thought thas why you left to sort out your life priorities and go back to normal."

" I thought that is what I wanted but nothing worked out."

" I know how you feel. being a ranger really changed me. I don't want you to have to have that big of a burden on your back of being a ranger again"

" I'm gonna be a ranger again. You should know me by now Tommy. If i have the power to help the world i'm not gonna sit around and do nothing."

" I know i just don't want you to wreck your life."

" What do you know about my life Tommy?"

"Well lately not that much but,"

"but what. you probably think i have this perfect life don't you?"

Tommy didn't say anything.

"Well do you! because if thats what you think you don't know how wrong you are. I'm no where near where i thought i would be by now in highschool. My life is so boring. Everytime i get to a point in my life where things are great. I screw things up tring to get more excitementinto my life!"

" Why i thought that is what you wanted?"

"I thoughtso too. i guess things don't always turn out as planned. I wan't to help you and the rangers. Tommy."

"I guess I can't stop you. I f that is what you want to do.

" Tommy? I'm really tired i've had a long day do you think you could take me home now. "

" sure."

As they walked out of the lab Kim asked Tommy about his life.

" So what do you do now?"

"I'm a highschool science teacher."

"Really i teacher i never saw that coming."

"neither did I. It just sort of happened."

Tommy and kim talked about his new job as a teacher as they walked out to the jeep. Kim told Tommy where she lived and as it tured out she wasn't very far from where Tommy lived.